Deep Crimson

Profundo Carmesi (Deep Crimson)
Spanish theatrical poster
Directed by	Arturo Ripstein
Written by	Paz Alicia Garciadiego
Starring	Regina Orozco Daniel Giménez Cacho
Music by	David Mansfield
Cinematography	Guillermo Granillo
Editing by	Rafael Castanedo
Release date(s)	United States: 8 October 1997
Running time	114 minutes
Country	Mexico
Language	Spanish
Box office	31,593,053 ESP

Deep Crimson (Spanish: Profundo Carmesí) is a 1996 Mexican crime film directed by Arturo Ripstein, written by Paz Alicia Garciadiego and starring Regina Orozco and Daniel Giménez Cacho. Like The Honeymoon Killers before it, the film is a dramatization of the story of "Lonely Hearts Killers", Martha Beck and Raymond Fernandez, who committed a string of murders of women in the 1940s.

Awards and honors

The film won eight Ariel Awards, including Best Actor and Best Actress and was nominated for the Golden Ariel. In addition, it was awarded Honorable Mention in the Latin American Cinema category at Sundance and won three Golden Osellas at the Venice Film Festival. It was Mexico's official submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, but it failed to earn a nomination.

See also

• The Honeymoon Killers, a 1970 film about the same events.
• Lonely Hearts, a 2007 film about the same events.

External links

• Deep Crimson at the Internet Movie Database
• Deep Crimson at AllRovi
• Deep Crimson at Rotten Tomatoes